To fix this we will need to apply this patch to filter.c in VMware Player module sources.

Step No 1

create a file in tmp directory name filter.c.diff and copy paste the following code init.

nano /tmp/filter.c.diff

205a206

> #if LINUX_VERSION_CODE < KERNEL_VERSION(3, 13, 0)

206a208,210

> #else

> VNetFilterHookFn(const struct nf_hook_ops *ops,        // IN:

> #endif

255c259,263

<    transmit = (hooknum == VMW_NF_INET_POST_ROUTING);

---

>    #if LINUX_VERSION_CODE < KERNEL_VERSION(3, 13, 0)

>       transmit = (hooknum == VMW_NF_INET_POST_ROUTING);

>    #else

>       transmit = (ops->hooknum == VMW_NF_INET_POST_ROUTING);

>    #endif

Step No 2

sudo -E -s



cd /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/ 



cp vmnet.tar vmnet.tar.original



tar xvf vmnet.tar vmnet-only/filter.c



patch vmnet-only/filter.c < /tmp/filter.c.diff



tar -uvf vmnet.tar vmnet-only/filter.c



rm -rf vmnet-only/

After that just run vmware and it will work fine.

   Starting VMware services:

   Virtual machine monitor                                             done

   Virtual machine communication interface                             done

   VM communication interface socket family                            done

   Blocking file system                                                done

   Virtual ethernet                                                    done

   VMware Authentication Daemon                                        done

   Shared Memory Available                                             done

Note : You also need to chown the .vmware directory otherwise your vmware changes will not save

example

sudo chown -R one:one .vmware

Where one is my username and one is my group. sudo chown -R $USER:$USER .vmware

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